Summary:
I found this article on channel 4 news and it is about a class-action settlement in 2009 that involved Google’s digitizing of books. From what I gathered, the opposition to uploading books online allowing google to digitally scan the text and sell them to users directly did not come from copyright or royalty police, but rather Google's competitors Yahoo and Microsoft. Google has been making “…digital copies of millions of copyrighted books now gathering dust on American library book shelves” for years now. The fear is that Google has too much control over the internet browsing world and would be able to raise prices to predator status. Questions are also raised about what information is going to be gathered about its users and how that information will be used, including target advertising.
Response:
I was not interested in the legal mumbo jumbo that was in this article but more about the implications of digitizing libraries. The fact that we can put in entire library online that is limited only by an internet connection and the amount of time in a day is incredible. The internet has essentially turned from a peer to peer connecting device to an Alexandria of modern day. A true Web 2.0.
Usefulness:
I thought the overall usefulness of this article was instrumental to my research and development of core concepts. This is exactly the kind of article I was looking for and was lucky enough to find it.
I found this article on channel 4 news and it is about a class-action settlement in 2009 that involved Google’s digitizing of books. From what I gathered, the opposition to uploading books online allowing google to digitally scan the text and sell them to users directly did not come from copyright or royalty police, but rather Google's competitors Yahoo and Microsoft. Google has been making “…digital copies of millions of copyrighted books now gathering dust on American library book shelves” for years now. The fear is that Google has too much control over the internet browsing world and would be able to raise prices to predator status. Questions are also raised about what information is going to be gathered about its users and how that information will be used, including target advertising.
Response:
I was not interested in the legal mumbo jumbo that was in this article but more about the implications of digitizing libraries. The fact that we can put in entire library online that is limited only by an internet connection and the amount of time in a day is incredible. The internet has essentially turned from a peer to peer connecting device to an Alexandria of modern day. A true Web 2.0.
Usefulness:
I thought the overall usefulness of this article was instrumental to my research and development of core concepts. This is exactly the kind of article I was looking for and was lucky enough to find it.
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